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Final Day to Vote for Your Favorite Animal Advocacy Organization 08.31.09

Posted by Sean McMahon on 08.31.2009

This is to alert you to the fact that today, August 31, 2009, is the FINAL DAY to vote for your favoring blog post in our ‘Helping Animals One Search at a Time’ contest.

Remember, the blog post that receives the most online votes wins a FREE three (3) month Search Engine Optimization (SEO) engagement from EngineWorks for their animal advocacy organization-of-choice.

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Vote Now! EngineWorks ‘Helping Animals One Search at a Time’ Contest

Posted by Jesse Liebman on 08.18.2009

EngineWorks is pleased to announce the five finalists in our ‘Helping Animals One Search at a Time’ contest. Now, it’s your turn to cast your vote for your favorite blog post!

The post that receives the most online votes will win a FREE three (3) month professional Search Engine Optimization (SEO) campaign for their animal advocacy organization-of-choice.

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Depeche Mode

Posted by Sean McMahon on 08.18.2009

depeche_mode_bandDepeche Mode.  Translated, means: ‘fast fashion‘.

(And, we do mean fast!)

The purpose of this blog post is to reveal the incredibly fast fashion currently being worn by our new Team EngineWorks cycling team!

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A Skeptical View of AdWords Shift to the Left

Posted by Sean McMahon on 08.17.2009

x-filesWe, as humans, have a tendency to seek-out a cause for every effect.  This, of unfortunately, can lead to the logical fallacy of ‘correlation equals causation’.  That is, just because a correlation exists between two phenomena, it must mean that one is the cause of the other.  It’s important to keep this fallacy in mind when asking yourself if Google’s recent decision to move its AdWords sponsored listings (from the far right side of their search engine results page, to closer to the middle of the page) was in response to the recent successful introduction of Microsoft’s newly branded search engine, Bing.

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Google Gets Caffeinated!

Posted by Sean McMahon on 08.11.2009

coffee_beansStatus: Top  Secret

Code Name:  Caffeine

Access:  Approved

The Associated Press revealed this morning that Google posted an announcement to their blog late last night that they are allowing individuals to have access to a new version of its search engine.  That’s right . . . Google has released a new search engine.  On a completely separate Web address.  That looks exactly the same as its existing engine.  However, the G Men and Women from Mountain View claim that ‘Caffeine’ (the new engine’s code name!) uses a different algorithm to rank sites for relevant queries within its index.

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Team EngineWorks . . . Off To The Races

Posted by Sean McMahon on 08.10.2009

cycling-picThe search experts here at EngineWorks are thrilled to announce the sponsorship of our international cycling team, Team EngineWorks, lead by experienced road racing expert Gary Spodnick.  We are sponsoring our cycling team because we recognize that the commitment, hard-work, and dedication required to compete at an international level in this grueling sport are the same values our team of search engine marketing professionals bring to every one of our client campaigns.

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Social Networking . . . Cast Your Net Wisely

Posted by Sean McMahon on 08.05.2009

nevis-cast-a-fishing-netIn an article released today titled ‘Who Uses Social Networks’, eMarketer published the very revealing results from a study performed by TNS Global that determined that the percentage of U.S. Internet users who visited social networking sites during the Second Quarter of 2009 increased almost sixty percent (+59.9%) compared to the percentage of users during the same quarter last year.

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